Data protection declaration

Thank you for your interest in our website. The protection of your privacy in the processing of personal data and the security of all business data is an important concern that we take into account in our business processes. Here we inform you in detail about the handling of your data.

§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data

(1) In the following we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are all data that are personally identifiable to you, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via a contact form, the data you provide (e.g. e-mail address, name and telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context after the storage is no longer necessary, or limit the processing if statutory retention obligations exist.

(4) If we make use of contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. We also specify the defined criteria for the storage period.

§ 2 Your rights

(1) In the following we inform you about your rights as a person concerned in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. You can exercise these rights at any time and therefore contact us directly. If you demand these rights from us, we will examine them in detail, taking into account the related legal requirements and requirements. We may ask you for further information. We will explain in detail the results of our audit and our procedure for fulfilling your request. It is possible that we may not be able to fully meet your wishes in the manner you request. This should not prevent you from claiming your rights from us or asking us about them. We will be happy to answer all your questions.

(2) Right to information

You have the right to request information from us at any time as to whether and which of your personal data is processed by us. This also includes information on the purposes of processing, if applicable on recipients to whom we have disclosed data about you, the planned storage period and, if applicable, information on the origin of this data, unless we have collected this data directly from you. In addition, you have the right to a one-time free copy of your personal data stored by us. We reserve the right to charge an appropriate administration fee for the following copies.

(3) Right to correction

You have the right to request us to correct any inaccurate information we hold about you. This also includes the right to complete incomplete personal data.

(4) Right to cancellation

You have the right to request the deletion of data that we have stored about you. If we have published data about you, this also includes our obligation to forward all links to this data as well as copies or replications of this data concerning to other persons responsible for the processing of this published personal data within the framework of the "right to be forgotten" pursuant to Art. 17 para. 2 GDPR, taking into account available technology and the implementation costs.

(5) Right to limitation of processing

You have the right to request us to restrict the processing of data that we have stored about you. Thereafter, processing of these data is only possible with your consent or for a few, legally defined purposes.

(6) Right of opposition to processing

If we base the processing of your personal data on the weighing of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if processing is not necessary in particular to fulfil a contract with you, which is described by us in the following description of the functions. When exercising such objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will examine the situation and either stop or adjust data processing or point out to you our compelling reasons worthy of protection, on the basis of which we will continue processing.

Of course, you can object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of advertising and data analysis at any time. You can inform us about your advertising objection via the contact channels listed under § 1 No. (2).

(7) Right to revoke consent under data protection law

If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you can revoke this at any time. Such a revocation influences the permissibility of processing your personal data after you have given it to us.

(8) Right to data transferability

You have the right to receive information about yourself that you have provided to us from us in a structured, common and machine-readable format for the purpose of transfer to another person responsible. At your request and taking into account the available technical possibilities, this also includes the direct transfer from us to the other person responsible.

(9) Right of appeal to a supervisory authority

You have the right to complain at any time to a data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) When using the website for information purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which are technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to guarantee stability and security (legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR):

IP address

host name

date and time of the request

Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Content of the request (specific page)

Access status/HTTP status code

the amount of data transferred in each case

Website from which the request comes (referrer)

The specific pages of our website you have visited

Browser: Type, version and set language

Operating system: Type and version

If JavaScript is also activated:

screen resolution

color depth

Size of the browser window

Installed Browser Plugins

(2) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard disk in the browser you use and through which certain information flows to the place that sets the cookie (here by us). Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

(3) Use of cookies:

a) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and functioning of which are explained below:

Transient cookies (see b)

Persistent cookies (see c)

b) Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes in particular the session cookies. These store a so-called session ID, with which different requests of your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

c) Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies at any time in the security settings of your browser.

d) You can configure your browser settings according to your wishes and, for example, refuse the acceptance of third party cookies or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all functions of this website.

§ 4 Further functions and offers of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services which you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, it may be necessary to provide further personal data which we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply. Mandatory fields are marked with an asterisk. Information in fields not marked in this way is purely voluntary.

(2) When you contact the service provider by e-mail, your e-mail address and other contact data will be stored by us in order to answer your questions.

(3) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly checked.

(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

Special forms of use

1. download of product documentation

(1) On our website we offer you the possibility to download product documentation. We do not collect any further personal data for this purpose.

(2) However, we make use of the service provider Qarad in providing this function. Product documentation is retrieved via the service provider's server, whereby the service provider receives the data specified in § 3 of this declaration. We do not know whether Qarad uses this data for its own analysis purposes. Further information can be obtained directly from Qarad or from the company's data protection declaration: Qarad b.v.b.a., Cipalstraat 3, 2440 Geel, Belgium; https://www.qarad.com/disclaimer.

web analytics

The legal basis for the use of all web analysis tools listed in this section is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f GDPR, i.e. the protection of our legitimate interests in consideration of the interests of our website visitors. We are interested in analysing the use of our website by our website visitors in order to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. If the analysis tool used also serves other purposes or we use it for other interests of ours, we will inform you directly in the explanation for the respective analysis tool.

1. use of WiredMinds

(1) This website uses the web analysis service of WiredMinds (www.wiredminds.de) to evaluate user access to this website.

(2) So-called web beacons are used for this evaluation. These are invisible graphics that are used to collect your IP address. The following information is determined in a multi-step process: Name and origin of the visiting company, date of visit, value (depth) of the search, search engine, routing information. Your IP address will only be used and stored in abbreviated form.

(3) You can object to the web analysis by WiredMinds via the following link:

(1) On this website we use MyFonts Counter, a web analytics service provided by Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. Based on the license terms, page view tracking is performed by counting the number of visits to the website for statistical purposes and sending it to Monotype Imaging Holdings. MyFonts only collects anonymous data. The data may be passed on by activating JavaScript code in your browser. To prevent the execution of Java script code from MyFonts as a whole, you can install a Java script blocker (e.g. www.noscript.net).

(2) By using this plug-in we pursue our interest in making our site more interesting and attractive for our users. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(1) On this website we use the offer of Google Maps. We are pursuing our interest in increasing the attractiveness of our website by displaying interactive maps directly on our website and enabling you to conveniently use the map function. The legal basis for the use of the plug-in is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) By visiting the website, Google receives information that you have called up the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified in § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. This is regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in with or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before accessing the subpage. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. Such evaluation takes place in particular (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of the provider. You will also find more information about your rights and privacy settings at: Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountainview, California 94043, USA; http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

2. integration of other third-party services

(1) On this website we have also included offers from Google (Google Fonts: Fonts). By using these offers we can offer you a better user experience on our website. This serves our interest in increasing the attractiveness of our website. The legal basis for the use of these offers is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR.

(2) By visiting the website, the respective third party provider receives information that you have accessed the corresponding subpage of our website. In addition, the data specified in § 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. This is regardless of whether this third party provides a user account through which you are logged in, or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to the third party, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile with the respective third-party provider, you must log out before visiting our website. The third party provider may store your data as a user profile and may use it for the purposes of advertising, market research and/or the design of its website in line with requirements. Such an evaluation takes place in particular (even for unlogged-in users) for the provision of demand-oriented advertising and, if necessary, to inform other users of the respective service about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective third party provider to exercise this right.

(3) Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of these providers notified below. They will also provide you with further information about your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy:

(4) Addresses of the respective providers and URL with their data protection information: